Alcohol free wines | Alcoholics

An educated response to: Alcoholics and our wines

I finally have an answer to this. As you said in your email, under
certain medications that limit your consumption of alcohol, usually
abstention is necessary until the course of medication(s) is complete.

However, for people who have liver disease, notably cirrhosis, no amount of alcohol
is permitted since there isn't enough of the liver to properly process
and filter it. Depending on the stage of the disease even almost
seemingly immeasurable quantities in non alcoholic wines can pose a problem.

In the past I have had "dealcoholized wine" from California and
Germany (yours)which was very good and priced just like regular wine.
However, even at .2% (that's 2 tenths of ml per liter or .4 proof) at
around five servings per liter that comes out to two hundredths per
volume (6 ounce glass). Even at that sub particle level, that's enough
to cause liver problems and possible renal (kidney) problems for some
people.

About the only way to have a true alcohol free beverage is
either to pasteurize immediately (Welch's grape juice) or any other
method to prevent fermentation.

As far as cooking goes, alcohol never truly burns off as is professed
by some, particularly when flambeed or slow cooked in a braising liquid.
I have seen wine powders that some restaurants use for those who can
not tolerate alcohol for whatever reason but I can not speak for quality
or taste.

Well that it's in a nutshell. I'm sure you get this non-alcoholic wine question fairly
regularly and this can be used to answer the question.